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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8125]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping to worship the idol below them. Fear is nobler than sensuality. Fear is better than no God, better than a god made with hands. In that fear lay deep hidden the sense of the infinite. The worship of fear is true, though very low; and though not acceptable to God in itself -- for only the worship of spirit and of truth is acceptable to him -- yet even in His sight it is precious. For he regards men not as they are merely, but as they shall be; not as they shall be merely, but as they are now growing, or capable of growing, towards that image after which He made them that they might grow to it. Therefore a thousand stages, each in itself all but valueless, are of inestimable worth as the necessary and connected gradations of an infinite progress. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41692]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome of the investigation and he has agreed to that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15588]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978]]></link><description><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This the month, and this the happy morn,  Wherein the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8093]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This the month, and this the happy morn,  Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing,    That he our deadly forfeit should release,  And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. That glorious form, that light insufferable,  And that far-beaming blaze majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council-table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity He laid aside, and, here with us to be.    Forsook the courts of everlasting day,  And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.  Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein  Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,  To welcome him to this his new abode,  Now while the heaven, by the Sun's team untrod,    Hath took no print of the approaching light,  And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright? See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet! Oh, run! present them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet,    And join thy voice unto the Angel Quire,  From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of the people of Israel, and he's going to sell it to the people of Israel, and ultimately, because the people in the Knesset are politicians, they will have to back him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49363]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2664]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64999]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939</guid></item></channel></rss>